This is a mediocre baseball team, now having lost four straight games and 20 of 32, that has overachieved thanks to a strong bullpen and good luck and is not well positioned to accomplish much of impact in the trade market.

It's a bit of a question of whether the pleasure of the Yankees biting it is an end in and of itself. Almost like, it would be a consolation if the Yanks finished under .500 even, as a kind of outgrowth of that, Baltimore reduces us to a Wild Card spot rather than winning the division.